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US-based Nigerian woman Temitope Adebamiro, who allegedly murdered her
husband has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and a weapons offense.
Adebamiro, 36, entered the plea to manslaughter and a weapons
offense in Superior Court in Wilmington on Sept. 16. Her attorney said she was able to
plead to the lesser murder offense under a section of the code for
extreme emotional distress. Now,
instead of proceeding to trial as planned for mid-October, she
faces four to 50 years in prison at a sentencing in December.
Temitope allegedly
stabbed her pharmacist husband, Adeyinka Adebamiro, 37, in the couple's home in
the 1300 block of Healy Court in April 2015. New Castle County police were called to the home at about 12:40 am and found Adeyinka unconscious with a stab wound near his neck. The
officers took the residents of the home, including Temitope, who was
wearing blood-stained clothing, to the Cpl. Paul J. Sweeney Public
Safety Building near New Castle, according to court documents.
The couple had been married for more than 10 years and had
two children. During investigation, Temitope claimed her husband was physically
abusive to her, even while she was pregnant, and had been cheating on
her with various women, including her own sister and the nanny's
daughter.
In
an interview with Sahara Reporters, Temitope's sister, who claimed
Temitope was the one cheating on the deceased and that she was involved
with black magic.
On the night of the killing, Temitope told investigators
her husband had sent her to Nigeria for several months. After returning in December, she had to stay in a hotel near the
Philadelphia airport for four days because her husband refused to let
her into their Red Lion home. He then paid for her to fly back to
Nigeria for a few more months. It was then she learned that her husband had spent Christmas with the nanny's
daughter.
The husband later flew out to Nigeria and flew back with
her to Philadelphia. As he showed her the cameras inside their home
over his cellphone, Temitope saw the nanny's daughter inside the home. Temitope saw several texts and
images in her husband's phone, which she took pictures of using her
cellphone. Some of the pictures included images of her sister and the
nanny's daughter.
Around 9 p.m. on the night of the killing, the
couple had been talking and watching television on the couch about 9 p.m
when her husband discovered the photos she'd taken on her cellphone,
according to court documents. As he yelled at her, Temitope told
police there was a power outage, the court documents said. Investigators
checked with Delmarva Power, which indicated there was no power outage
at the time, police said.
Temitope
then told police that when the
power returned, she found her husband in the first-floor bedroom lying
in the bed. As she got closer to him, she saw a knife on the ground
which she picked up and took to the kitchen, according to documents. As
she put it away, she noticed blood on the tip and that's when she
realized he had been stabbed, the court documents said.
Temitope
suggested to police that her husband stabbed himself and changed her
story several times, according to court documents. When
police told Temitope that his death was not a suicide, the woman "began
nodding her head in agreement," according to court documents.
Police also found during a
search of the home a photograph of Temitope's husband on top of the
dresser in the master bedroom. The picture is of the victim holding a
baby with an X across his face and a cut mark across his neck, according
to court documents.
She was
charged with first-degree murder and has been held in the Baylor Women's
Correctional Institution ever since.
Source: Delawareonline.com
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